Re: ePub with custom CSS that places images

[Raniere Silva <raniere-Xhq86aZylhRTIXuwt5Zssw@public.gmane.org>]

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Hi nkalvi,

> Is it possible to include image files (in ePub output), that are referenced 
> form custom.css only (i.e. not included in any of the markdown sources)?

After I think a little about your problem I find one solution.

You can embed your image into CSS using base64,
e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme#CSS.
This will solve your problem when using

    $ pandoc -f markdown -t epub -o my-book.epub --epub-stylesheet=style-with-base64.css book.md

The advantage of this approach is that you will avoid
hacking pandoc behavior by adding the figure in the markdown and hide it.

The disadvantage is that you will have a little more work to update the CSS
but since I expected that you don't do it often this will be OK.

Cheers,
Raniere